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Miktay wrote:And yet some people still want Socialism/Marxism/Communism?
Dunno why.
adnj wrote:The current price for gasoline in Venezuela is US$0.02 per liter due to price controls, an excess of both fuel and hydroelectric energy, and economic collapse. That is the lowest price worldwide.Miktay wrote:And yet some people still want Socialism/Marxism/Communism?
Dunno why.
The current price in all of the worlds socialist countries is:
Viet Nam 0.57
China 0.83
Laos 1.08
Cuba 1.20
The corruption of the current government is the stated reason for US and UN sanctions.
Argue the intentions of the US, the intentions of the UN or the intentions of the Venezuelan government. Because the type of government has nothing to do with why the problem exists. Additionally, all of the fuel that you have ever purchased in TTO has been similarly subjected to price controls.
Duane 3NE 2NR wrote:Socialism at work
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-ne ... ital-bill/
As COVID-19 spread in Venezuela, the new elites kept partying. I had to get my mom to safety.
Even before the coronavirus, Venezuela's hospitals lacked running water, protective equipment and even power. Every Venezuelan deserves better.
Global pandemic. Those two words set my whole family in a frenzy. As the world’s borders shut down, my biggest fear wasn’t for my own health: it was for the life of my 66-year-old mami, living alone in Venezuela, our home country of 26 million people, where unofficial estimates indicate the number of intensive care beds is less than 100.
And while being worried for the health of an elderly relative is perhaps one of the most common feelings at the moment, the trauma of losing my papi to the seasonal flu in Venezuela just two years ago intensified that worry into a panic.
When he got ill there in 2018, there were power outages in some of the country's intensive care units, doctors were telling me how to get basic medicines on the black market and many hospitals just didn’t have gloves, masks or even running water. We lost my dad in just 3 weeks — and all of that was before the novel coronavirus.
“I won’t let this happen again,” I said to myself this March. My siblings and I had to get Mami out of Venezuela.
The country has been on the brink for a while.
agent007 wrote:The country shoul exchange redvevo for fuel. Dunno how much we would get but it would mean we get rid of that troll.
j.o.e wrote:In foreign affairs you have to be consistent. If you accept one country selecting a leader for another sovereign country you have to accept it for yourself or the the rest of the region when it happens. Maduro is sheit but he is Venezuela’s sheit to deal with not for US.
Les Bain wrote:Political Mandingo could afford to maintain an irreverent, tough talking position on the US. All them supporters bawling 'that is man' and 'gih dem' don't have the safety net he has, should the orange moron decide to coat us in sanctions.
Hwells wrote:'elitecorolla' which part of a corolla is elite?
De Dragon wrote:Hwells wrote:'elitecorolla' which part of a corolla is elite?
It's an old running gag on here.
De Dragon wrote:Les Bain wrote:Political Mandingo could afford to maintain an irreverent, tough talking position on the US. All them supporters bawling 'that is man' and 'gih dem' don't have the safety net he has, should the orange moron decide to coat us in sanctions.
Red Plastic Bag/Tokesy/elitecorolla/one eye are not pleased with your description of the dear Leader's intentions
President Trump said he would consider meeting with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and expressed a noted lack of enthusiasm for the country's Washington-backed opposition leader in a new interview published Sunday.
"I would maybe think about that," Trump said when asked about the possibility of meeting with Maduro during an Oval Office interview with Axios on Friday, adding, "Maduro would like to meet. And I'm never opposed to meetings — you know, rarely opposed to meetings.
"I always say, you lose very little with meetings. But at this moment, I've turned them down," Trump added.
The president was also reportedly less than enthusiastic about his administration's decision to back Juan Guaidó, who declared himself president of Venezuela following the country's disputed 2018 election.
"I could have lived with it or without it, but I was very firmly against what's going on in Venezuela," Trump told Axios when asked if he regretted his decision to go along with former national security adviser John Bolton's urging to support Guaidó.
"Guaidó was elected," Trump said. "I think that I wasn't necessarily in favor, but I said — some people that liked it, some people didn't. I was OK with it. I don't think it was — you know, I don't think it was very meaningful one way or the other."
The president's comments come after excerpts from Bolton's soon-to-be released tell-all, "The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir," alleged that Trump had been wishy-washy on Guaidó from the start. According to Bolton, Trump said the opposition leader was weak like a "kid," describing him as the "Beto O’Rourke of Venezuela."
Bolton also alleged that Trump said it would be "cool" to invade Venezuela, and that the South American country was "really part of the United States." The Associated Press in 2018 reported that Trump had asked his aides why the U.S. couldn't invade the country.
Trump's comments about Maduro appear to undercut his administration's hardline approach to Venezuela. The Justice Department in March charged Maduro and 13 other Venezuelan officials with narcoterrorism, and Trump in August 2019 expanded sanctions against the country into an embargo.
Bolton's claims about Venezuela were just some of the bombshells contained in his memoir, which also alleged that Trump had sought election help from Chinese President Xi Jinping. Trump in his interview with Axios said he had held off on sanctioning Beijing officials over reeducation camps in Xinjiang province because he was hoping to strike a major trade deal with China.
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